In- Color 2023-25 – Creativity Abounds Blog Hop

Published on May 18, 2023May 15, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Welcome to Creativity Abounds Blog Hop. We are a group of very keen Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators from all around the world that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own.

Our Theme this month is In-Colors 2023-25

Stampin’ Up!® have given us 5 NEW In- Colors to use over the next 2 years. These colours – Wild Wheat, Boho Blue, Moody Mauve, Pebble Path and Cooper Clay. These 5 colours have great earthy tones they work well together and with other colours.

My take on these colours are….

Boho Blue – I love Blues
Wild Wheat – a great colour to use if you want Gold accents with out the shinny metallic gold. Wild Wheat also has green under tones which works well for leaves with Autumn tones.
Moody Mauve – This reminds me of Old Rose colours.
Pebble Path – This colour to me has a warm gray tones, a nice blend between browns and greys.
Cooper Clay – Cooper Clay is like the Wild Wheat , could be a replacement for metallic Cooper and again has autumn tones.

Dainty Delight

For my card I decided to use Boho Blue as my card base and back drop for the floral arrangement. With the Moody Mauve and the Boho Blue the Wild Wheat has a green tone.

The flowers I coloured with Moody Mauve Blends, Wild Wheat for the flower centers. The leaves I use Soft Sea Foam just to give a hint of a different green and not wanting to go too bright.

The ribbon, I unraveled approx 8cm and tied it into a note, rather than a bow. A bow in the coordinating ribbon – Boho Blue Textured Ribbon would have been a little too heavy against the lightness of the stems and floral image.

The sentiment I stamped using the Pebble Path ink, not as dark as the basic black

How to make this card…

Please note that the conversion from Metric/A4 to Imperial/Letter will change the look of the card slightly. There is a difference of roughly 1cm/ ⅜”. This all makes a difference to the layers in the length of the card. You could make the lengths of the DSP shorter but then in doing that the Die Cut stems would be longer than the DSP. So I will leave that to you to decide what you want to do.

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial/Letter	Metric/A4
Card Base	Boho Blue	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat	Basic White	4 x 5¼”	9.5 x 13.9cm
DSP Spot	Boho Blue	2¼ x 4¾”	6.5 x 12cm
DSP Lines	Boho Blue	3 x 4¼”	7.5 x 11cm
Stem	Wild Wheat	2½ x 6″	6 x 15cm
Stem	Moody Mauve	2½ x 6″	6 x 15cm
Stamped Image	Basic White	2 X 4″	5 x 10cm
Sentiment	Basic White	¾ X 2¾”	1.8 x 6cm
Card Insert	Basic White	4 X 5¼”	10 x 14.4
Insert Strip Spot	Boho Blue	⅝ X 4″	1.5 x 10cm
Insert Strip Lines	Boho Blue	¾ X 4″	1.8 x 10cm

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Bright & Beautiful – May Fun Fold Challenge

Published on May 4, 2023May 3, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Welcome to Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Australian Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges.

Thank you Kylie for this fun challenge, Double Z-Fold cards are a easy & fun. There are so many great variations to the Z- Fold Card…check out this Pinterest page on Z-Fold Cards using Stampin’ Up! Products.

Bright & Beautiful Double Z- Fold Card

I created my card using the Bright & Beautiful Suite from the NEW Annual 2023-24 Stampin’ Up!® Catalogue. If you love Birthdays, Balloons and stars this is a fun suite. Great for birthday cards, general celebrations or any special moments. The dies cut balloons, stars, tags and work well for shaker cards. The Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper (DSP) is 6 x 6″, one side of the DSP has fun type images of stars, strips, waves, strips and confetti. The reverse side has ombre effects, variegate or shabby (as per my card), giving great texture effects for your cards.

The DSP coordinates with Berry Burst, Bubble Bath, Lemon Lime Twist, Pretty Peacock, Azure Afternoon and Blueberry Bushel. For my card I used the Azure Afternoon DSP and die cut stars in Berry Burst, Basic White, Azure Afternoon and Parakeet Party.

To add some extra texture to the stars I embossed them using one of the Basics 3D Embossing Folder found on the Online Exclusives in my Online Store.

The Bright & Beautiful Suite also includes Gold celebration Specialty Designer Series Paper – window sheets in 3 designs – spots, stars and confetti, streamer twirls. One side of the sheets are gold and the other side is in silver. I used the gold spots for the 2nd part of the Double Z-Fold, to create a see through element to my card. I was then able to attach the stars and tag to the window sheet so the stars and tag look like they are floating.

NB: make sure you use your bone folder to crease in the folds and to adhere to the card base I used lots of glue dots that hind nicely behind the dots.

On the back of the card I have added a panel to write your Birthday Greetings on.

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Bright & Beautiful Suite Collection (English)

Basics 3 D Embossing Folders

Basic White A4 Cardstock

Azure Afternoon A4 Cardstock

Parakeet Party A4 Cardstock

Berry Burst A4 Cardstock

Azure Afternoon Classic Stampin' Pad

Mini Glue Dots

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Hello, Irresistible & Butterfly Brilliance – Live with Michele

Published on April 22, 2023April 22, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

I had so much fun on my ‘Live’ this week. This card was created with Stampin’ Up! products coming and going, also die cuts left over from other projects – Vellum Leaves, Flowers and leaves cut from Designer Series Paper.

Shimmery White Cardstock and Butterfly Brilliance Bundle will soon be leaving us. I am going to miss them, but I am also looking forward to all the new products coming. I am really enjoying the Wild Wheat Cardstock and Ink from the New 2023-25 In-Colours, it has a lovely Green/gold tone which for me is a great substitute for Gold Foil.

I also used one of the Basic 3D Embossing Folders, this was the first I time I have used this folder and looks great with the other elements – floral dies and leaves.

Below is a video showing how the card was made.

Measurements Used…

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Regency Park – March Class

Published on April 12, 2023April 10, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

This month in my March In-home class we created cards using products from the Stampin’ Up!® Regency Park Suite Collection from the 2023 Mini Catalogue. There is so much in this suite….there is 2 bundles, Textured Shimmer paper, Cane Weave Embossing Folder, Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon, Adhesive Backed Milky Dots and 6 x 6″ Regency Park Designer Series Paper.

The good thing is some of these products will be staying in the new Stampin’ Up!® 2023-24 Catalogue but the sad thing is the bundles will be gone and the Regency Park Designer Series Paper will also be gone.

My advise….order them now if you want them or the 10% with the Bundles (at time of posting the availability of Suite or DSP unknown)

In my search for ideas I came across a YouTube Channel called Call Me (Crafty) Al. Both the card above and below came from her channel. She has a series called Sheet Load of Cards and these are where she shows and has a Printable PDF of card ideas where you want to make more than one of the same card…great for multiple cards and classes. You would just need to adjust some of the measurements for the Australian A4 Cardstock and our different card size.

Both of these cards really didn’t need much tweaking at all.

The other thing I would say is that if your looking for the link to her PDF’s, you do need to search the page. They were about half way down the Links or at the end.

Card Above Link – March 2023 SheetLoad of Cards | Debut & FREE Printable #SLCTMar2023

Card Below Link- January 2021 SheetLoad of Cards | Debut & FREE Printable

Now, I did change this one a bit to suite the stamps.

Al has lots of great ideas and when the crafting juices are not flowing, it’s good to see what others are creating. Just always give credit to those you have CASE’d and their ideas, and play with them to make them your own.

CASE stands for “Copy and Share Everything” OR “Copy and Selectively Edit” (meaning putting your own spin on another’s design or idea)

The card below is mine, I could CASE everything, could I!

With this card I also added the stitched circle from the Stylish Shapes and the Bough Punch. The sentiment came from the Go to Greetings Stamp set

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Regency Park Suite Collection (English)

Petal Park Bundle (English)

Sentimental Park Bundle (English)

Cane Weave 3 D Embossing Folder

Regency Park 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

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Abigail Rose Gift Tag – Live with Michele

Published on April 6, 2023April 3, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

This week I decided to use a suite I haven’t used much, Abigail Rose Suite Collection by Stampin’ Up!®. I have used the Cottage Rose Bundle but I hadn’t even opened the Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper until now…..and it is so pretty!

I have been wanting to create large gift tags for a while and as this suite we are now saying good buy to I thought I’d better use it. These tags are large enough to decorate a gift or gift bag. They have a little pocket where you can add ephemera or a little note.

I wanted to give the tags a bit of an aged or Shabby effect so I used my favorite Soft Suede Stampin’ Pad to do that. I am going to be so sad to say good bye to Soft Suede…I just might have to keep it just in case…LOL!

I also kept the colours subtle with Petal Pink and Soft Sea Foam cardstock for accents, such as the die cuts.

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Elegant Boarder and Two-Tone Flora -Live with Michele

Published on March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

On this weeks ‘Live’ I created a card that steps a little out of my comfort zone. I wanted to try to push myself a little further but it just didn’t happen. My plain was to use a variety of stamps from different sets and I had a few lined up. But as I started working I ended up using just the one set – Two-Tone Flora along with one of the Elegant Boarder Dies cards I cut last week.

Even though I used the Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin’ Pad, I ended up using the Calypso Coral Cardstock…it still works OK. These things happen when you do a Live and afterwards you think…Why did I do that?

The Elegant Boarder Dies in one of the Online Exclusives found on my Online Store. These items will not be found in any catalogue. Also while you are there make sure you have a look at the punches..Stampin’ Up! ® have added back 2 circle punches…always a good idea to always check the Online Store for Clearance Rack or any new products.

As you will see watching the video below it was still a lot of fun and sometimes doing something different can be good.

Measurements Used…

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Fancy Flora Creativity Abounds Blog Hop

Published on March 16, 2023March 12, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Fancy Flora Suite Collection

I am really enjoying playing with this suite, I put of buying it for a little while, until I worked out what I was wanting……In the end I just had to get it, I love the flowers and the Designer Series Paper is stunning. There is so much in this suite it is totally worth the extra cost. There are 2 Bundles of Stamps and coordinating dies. But don’t feel you have to purchase the lot you can purchase just what you want.

** Remember you get a 10% off when you purchase the Bundles – Two-Tone Flora Bundle and Something Fancy Bundle

Fancy Flora Suite Collection

What is in the Collection..

Two-Tone Flora Bundle – the beautiful floral stamps and dies Photopolymer
Something Fancy Bundle – Sentiment stamps and Frame Dies, these are wonderful for cutting out your sentiments
Fancy Flora 6 x 6″ Designer Series Paper – Painted style paper, colours are stunning See how these papers were created HERE (hope this link works…LOL on FB)
Fine Shimmer 12 x 12 Paper Pack
Pool Party Grosgrain Ribbon 1cm wide
Iridescent Pastel Gems

My Card – Fancy Flora Fun Fold

This is a 3 Fold Card, where the left side folds in first and then the left over the top. This card has two card fronts and I needed to show off this DSP, i just love all these colours.

This is a two step stamp and I found it easier to stamp the detailed image first and then using the same colour and the second image, stamp off onto a scrap of paper before stamping the rest of the flower. I used the centers of the flowers (stamen) as my guide for lining yp the images.

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5 January – 1 May 2023
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Regency Park #003 Sketch Challenge – Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop

Published on March 4, 2023February 26, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Our challenge this month is a Sketch Challenge by Maheswari. I love the layers of two frames that are slightly twisted, with decorative elements on diagonal corners.

Regency Park

For my card I have used the Regency Park Suite by Stampin’ Up!® and to create my card I used manly the Petal Park Bundle. This is such a simple bundle to use, you can colour the flowers by hand with any medium you wish or use the stamps to colour the flowers. The suite includes a simple simple punch to make cut out the flowers and one leaf quick and easy.

The suite consists of two Bundles

Petal Park Bundle 160577 Flowers & leaf stamps plus the Punch
Sentimental Park Bundle 160567 – Sentiments, more flowers & leaves and Dies

It then has other items in the suite including

Textured 12 x12 Shimmer Paper
Can Weave 3D Embossing Folder
Night of Navy Boardered Ribbon
Adhesive Backed Milky Dots
Regency Park 6 x 6 DSP

I created the two rectangle frames cut from the Rectangle Stitched Frames and Basic White Cardstock.

The Flowers are coloured with Watercolour Pencils onto Basic White Cardstock. Instead of Blending the pencils water or Blender Pens I have used Memento Ink and Blends Colour Lifter. Patty Bennett did a very good video on this technique – Blending Watercolor Pencils with Color Lifter

How to make this card…

Card Front – Embossed, I used for this one of the Basic 3D Folders 161598 from the Online Exclusive, you could of course use the 3D embossing folder that comes with the suite, but I wanted something a little more subtle.
Frames – Placing one die side of the other, die cut 2 frames.
Flowers Stamping – Stamp 3 sets of flowers and 8 leaves using Memento Tuxedo.
Flowers, coloured with pencils and blended with Blends Colour Lifter
- Large flowers – Balmy Blue and Night of Navy
- Medium Flowers – Flirty Flamingo, Mellon Mambo & Daffodil Delight
- Small Flower – Gorgeous Grape & Mellon Mambo
- Leaves – Old Olive & Granny Apple Green
Bakers twine split and added under flowers
Sentiment – Embossed in White Embossing Powder
Card Insert – Insert strip embossed with the 3D Embossing Folder

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial/Letter	Metric/A4
Card Base	Basic White Thick Cardstock	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Front	Basic White Card stock	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Frames	Basic White Card stock	3½ x 4½” x 2	9 x 12cm x 2
Flowers	Basic White Card stock	4 ¼ x 5½”	10.5 x 14.9cm
Sentiment	Basic Black	1½ x 3″	3 x 8cm
Card Insert	Basic White Card stock	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Insert Strip	Basic White Card stock	1 x 4″	2.5 x 10cm

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Regency Park Suite Collection (English)

Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock

Basic White A4 Cardstock

Watercolor Pencils

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Stampin' Blends Color Lifter

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

Basics Embossing Powders

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Fancy Flora -Live with Michele

Published on February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

The card I made last week is made using the Fancy Flora Suite Collection, which I made on my ‘Live with Michele’. every Friday at 1pm (AEDT). This week I was running a bit late having too much fun playing with this suite. Have added the link to the video below.

There is a lot is this suite –

Two-Tone Flora Bundle – two step stamps flowers, easy to line up for six beautiful flowers and two one-step leaves. This also has the coordinating dies to cut out your stamped images.
Something Fancy Bundle – 10 sentiments and frame dies that could be used on any card or scrapbook layout
Fine Shimmer Paper Pack
Iridescent Pastel Gems
Pool Party Grosgrain Ribbon
Fancy Flora Designer series Paper – 12 double sided designs of stunning paint textured image designs, 4 of each

Measurements Used…

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Fancy Flora Suite Collection (English)

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

Basic White A4 Cardstock

Soft Succulent A4 Cardstock

Evening Evergreen A4 Cardstock

Evening Evergreen Classic Stampin' Pad

Soft Succulent Classic Stampin' Pad

Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

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Two-Toned Flora

Published on February 17, 2023February 14, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

This was a fun card to make using the Two-Tone Dies and Something Fancy Bundle found in the Stampin’ Up! 2023 Mini Catalogue.

Last weekend the Creativity Abounds Team ran a By the Bay Stamp Camp, it was so much fun. Kylie Swain gave us a Colour Challenge and this card I made using her challenge.

How to make this card…

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial	Metric
Card Base	Basic White	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Front	Basic White	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Strip	Basic White	1 x 4″	2.5 x 10cm
Sentiment	Basic White	1 x 3″	2.5 x 7cm

Cut all cardstock
Card Front
- Using large Die Cut, die cut in Basic White cardstock. You may need to run through twice.
- Trim Die cut piece to 10cm (4″) wide, trim length down to 13.7cm (5 ⅜”)
- With Blending brush, brush on the ink onto the flowers and leaves. Colours used- Polished Pink, Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry
- Metric Card – Card Front I normally use is 14.4cm, to make up the difference cut card into 2 pieces about where the strip will cover. Spread the two pieces and adhere one piece from the top down and the other from the bottom up. Leaving a gap as per photo below.
- Dot multi purpose glue onto the back of die cut and attach to the card.
Strip – With Granny Apple Green ink and blending brush, brush ink around all four sides.
Add diamenionals to the back of the strip and adhere to the card.
Stamp ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black onto basic White Cardstock. Die cut with die from the Something Fancy Bundle. Attach with dimensionals.